ravelings

In a cloud of blood, ravelings of entrails wavered like a shredded banner, and heads and limbs in rags of flesh toppled in a slow spin.

In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

These places were strung together like beads, no empty spots between them but ravelings of Tastee-Freezes, seashell emporiums, and drive-in movies.

Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977

He noticed that she was sewing with ravelings and he said,

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration

Tired and hung over from all their ravelings of the night before, they ignored her.

Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

During the period of waiting for the tree to fall, I had made a needle of bone and taking an empty flour sack proceeded to manufacture a pair of legs which, with infinite pains, I stitched to the waistband of my long lost trousers and added wooden pegs to insure stability and strength to the flimsy ravelings.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

It won't be so long for you as for us; and by the time you have Oka Sayye beaten to ravelings you will have such a 'perfect habit' that you will start right in with the beating idea.

Her father`s daughter 1921

An unhemmed garment of coarse white hemp hung in ravelings about slippers of sackcloth; what had been an elaborate headdress was hidden under a binding of the bleached hemp; she wore no paint nor flowers; her pins and earrings were pasted with dough, and her expression was drugged with the contemplative fervor of what had evidently been a religious ceremonial.

Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

During the period of waiting for the tree to fall, I had made a needle of bone and taking an empty flour sack proceeded to manufacture a pair of legs which, with infinite pains, I stitched to the waistband of my long lost trousers and added wooden pegs to insure stability and strength to the flimsy ravelings.

Reminiscences of a Pioneer Thompson, William, Colonel 1912

Their bridles were formed of bag ravelings and girths and blankets were made of gunny sacks.

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

The face was left uncovered, except that a small patch of white cloth ravelings, called

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911